Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose making preseason debut Friday

So what does that mean for Jimmy Butler and the team’s offence? Forget the fact that the Cavaliers are once again the favorite to come out of the Eastern Conference once again. “Derrick’s excited to get back out there, he had a great offseason”. Hoiberg is making his debut as an National Basketball Association head coach.

The Tom Thibodeau era is over in Chicago. Fred Hoiberg, a former Bulls player and assistant general manager with Minnesota, seems to be up to the challenge.

So far it has translated to a faster pace, lots of passes and lots of 3-pointers. “If you get scored on, you’ve got to take a stand”, Hoiberg said prior to a 114-91 preseason loss to Detroit in which the Bulls gave up 38 points in the fourth quarter alone.

The said rumor contains the idea of Lakers acquiring the Bulls point-guard in a possible two way process through which the Lakers may choose one.

“I’m just happy to be playing”, Rose told the media on Monday, via K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune. “Get out there and throw ahead, and attack”. While Rose appeared in only one preseason game, he should play his regular role Tuesday, as there will be no set restriction on his minutes.

The preseason appearance was apparently used as well to get Rose into the groove of things despite playing only 10 minutes.

That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly.

If you track all the players who have had ACL surgery in the last five years-to say nothing of a pair of MCL surgeries and now an orbital surgery-you won’t find one as close to the level of athlete he was other than Rose.

It seems that the game was the yardstick which the Bulls would be using to see if Rose can play on opening day.

Derrick Rose is key to Fred Hoiberg’s fast paced offense.

“I had a few good looks and they just weren’t falling”, he said. He’s getting his wind up a little bit.

There needs to be a plan.

Rose knows he’s supposed to push the ball and is happy to do so. They need to win now.

Hoiberg, who played for Chicago between 1999-2003, is now the man in charge after a successful stint coaching alma mater Iowa State. According to reports, an assist by Rose “pushed the Bulls offense into a higher gear”. “But you don’t put too much onus on if this will be the team that we’ll be long-term tomorrow”. “We couldn”™t stop him (Sunday).”.

“I wanted him to play with different combinations”. The source also reported that Rose would fit in pretty good as a Lakers. The Mavericks went on a 5-0 run, burning another Bulls timeout at the near five-minute mark.